Unscramble LITHOIDAL and you have 172 words, LITHOIDAL itself among them: it scores 13 in Scrabble and 14 in Words With Friends. THALLOID is the best of the shorter words, at 12 points. It has 9 letters, 4 vowels and 5 consonants.
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Per tile: Scrabble value, Words With Friends in blue where different.
Counting the words from LITHOIDAL by length: 1 with 9 letters, 1 with 8, 2 with 7, 6 with 6, 37 with 5, 60 with 4, 42 with 3 and 23 with 2.
There is a single one of the 8-letter words made with LITHOIDAL letters: THALLOID, 12 points.
37 5-letter words from LITHOIDAL; 4 of them share the top score of 9. IDIOT, TIDAL and HOLLA are everyday picks.
Of the 60 4-letter words from LITHOIDAL, 7 score 8 points, the group's best. HILL, HOLD and HALL are the ones most people know.
Keep every letter of LITHOIDAL but one, change that one, and you get:
More 9-letter words: starting with LI · ending in AL · all 9-letter words
What LITHOIDAL means, then the 7 highest-scoring answers.
Score: Scrabble · Words With Friends
Scrabble US and Scrabble UK accept LITHOIDAL, but the list Words With Friends is built on does not include it.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| LITHOIDAL itself | Yes | Yes | No |
| Answers accepted (of 172) | 145 | 172 | 133 |
* The Words With Friends base list; the game adds and drops some words.
Scrabble US and Words With Friends* skip 27 of them: DHOL, HILD, ILLTH, THOLI, HIOI, ILLIAD, LITH, AIDOI, DILLI, DIOTA, DITAL, DOILT and 15 more. Words With Friends* skips 12 of them: LITHOIDAL, DHOLL, ODAH, THALI, DOH, AHI, LAH, LOID, LILO, ODA, DA and OI.